Any details on Yamada MX 105? Let us know!

why do you double post ?

Hi!

well....i just received about 2hours ago my brand new MX105.
I had a yamada 6700 which just burned out, and the folks at Pixmania gave me a new MX105.

My first impressions were really good.
Pros:
- it has all possible outputs, with even an Optical Audio out, which the 6700 had not.
- the software is a lot more userfriendly, with more options.
- remote control is also a big improvement, being much easier to use and better at touch
- the CD deck is now a normal one, not the 5mm thin that the 6700 has. Though it opens about 75%, which is somehow strange....
- image quality has improved over the 6700.

Now, for the "cons":
- it hangs!!! while playing a DIVx movie, it hangs from time to time about half a second, and jumps 2 or 3 seconds forward!!!
- subtitles: i'm not sure yet, but it seems that the subtitle file must be named equal to the movie filename! Also, you have to choose subtitle file by a "strange" process: play movie, while playing press Subtitle key, then it show some kind of index ID [1][2][3][4]..... and you have to press the corresponding id to change subtitles! really dule way to select a subtitle! I haven't found a way to choose subtitles by the CD Explorer, so i think this is the only way!
And yes, i did some RTFM, and besides being in french, and badly translated from english to french, nothing is there about choosing subtitles...only the way i described...
- subtitles , once again: fonts are white, small...too small for me at least, background is some kind of violet colour...AND special characters, like Ç(cedil) É È Ã and other portuguese characters are not supported!!!

In the round up,i think it is better than the 6700.I just hope someone makes a better firmware!!!

MTZ, pliiiiiiiiiiiiiiize! help us

Regards,

SCoelho

for anyone to patch the firmware for this player he/she need a firmware to patch in the first place

yup....u r right...
so, is there anyway i could copy the firmware?
what kind of cable should one use to do this?

i did a RS232 cable once,but i need to solder some resistence to I/O pins, so i do not get 12V instead of 3.3v.....(that is why my 6700 burned )

you could start whit reading this guide http://mtz.softpedia.com/index.php?option=...&id=20&Itemid=2

and then maybe take some pic of the player inside so we can see how it looks

I think this player is with Zoran Vaddis 7 chipset.

enjoy,
Mtz

that is why i sugested that he took some pic of the inside so we can see what its build on

Maybe it's easier if you just get a mobile data cable. It shouldn't be too expensive, I guess. It appears that with those cables you only need 3 wires (RX, TX, GND). At least it's working with some people.

However if your new player is not a Mediatek based one, and it looks like it isn't, you're out of luck as far as modding is concerned. Maybe try to return it and get another one? Since you live in Portugal, as I do, I suggest you try the Denver 228 (clone of Yamada 6600) which is on sale at Worten, for 65 €.

Howdy guys!

well... my screwdriver has done it again and opened the brand new MX105. Actually it is not sealed, so no probs with the waranty;)

I took some photos of it. Just have a look.

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It seems to me that it is pretty much the same of the old 6700 though the Yamada folks changed chipset and stuff.
It is now a Sunplus SPHE8281A (never heard of it, and i'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with Sun Microsystems )

Is there any other equipment using the same chipset? is it worthy?
Better than the MTK chipset?

Regards

SCoelho

By the way,

i'm not sure if the MX105 is related in anyway with the 5700, but the manual (yes, i did RTFM!:)) is both for mx105 and yamada dvd 5700....anyone knows about the 5700? is the chipset the same as the 105?

Hey scoelho....
Thanks for the information about the mx105, I'm looking to buy a DVD/Divx player and I'm really interested in this player.

I have a few questions... did you test xvid movies with packed bitstream, does it support it or is the image jerky? What about xvid + AC3 movies did you check if the subtitles disappear after 15 min or something? This is what bothers me more in DVD players I think the rest can be more or less fixed with firmware upgrade.

And when you say it hangs in a Divx movie, could it be because the dvd is scratched, or has some dust, or is it really the player's fault, does it happen to every divx movie?

Regards

could you upload pictures somewhere else (rapidshare.de) ? i cant see them here... this player is 13.5K local currency compared to yamada 6700 (18K)...

would really like to know if supports:

(xvid)
- qpel
- qmc 1 / gmc 3
- packed bitstream when bvol=1 or bvol=2 are used

and... is there anything in manual about player being software
upgradable (meant as upgradable via CDR, not via cable or de-soldering
flash chip

thanx

rialto

Hey! I have an Yamada Dvd-mx 105.

When i play divx and xvid it jumps and the the player cant handle äöå for the subtiltes and the subtiltes and horrible they are white with blue viollet stripe i cant read it from 2meter distance. I have been googling for 2 days now about 12hr and i still cant with any firmwares. I would be really happy if anybody can help me get hold of the firmware. there are no firmware at yamada homepage umax.de neither on the other site. I u know something please inform me.


have a nice day

I have de same problem and I´m waiting for any info to resolve the problem.
Pixmania told me to return to sender the Yamada, and don´t show any resolution of problems.

If anyone now something please tell us.

The new Firmware did solve the AVI+VBR playback issues.

Firmware can be downloaded from:


www.yamada.de/ftp/mx105v2.zip


Instructions on howto create the update CD you can find on:
www.yamada.de/ftp/yamada_update_eng.pdf

Before updating always load default settings.

No problem after Firmware update.

Thanks Yamada!

i read the yamada mx 105 uses a sunplus chipset.

any idea on how to start modding this firmware?

Tks problem resolved.

No problem after Firmware update. I still think that the subtitles are small.
Keep on fixing that firmware Yamada

Yes it's true the player have a sunplus chip.

I don't no how to start modding the FW.

yes you are right Leanz the subtitles are very small i have already send a mail to yamada for the problem i hope she will bring a firmware for this

i have a mail back from yamada

i have now a lot of movies and its jumping a lot of seconds sometime´s after 5 minutes and sometimes after 10 minutes the firmware have not fix it all

i have recode my mpeg4 movies with virtualdub but it will not help i have scan the file´s on bad frames but not bad frames in the movie

it´s not the codec what gives error the codec i used are divx from the first to the last

is there anybody can fix the problems with a firmware of something

so not then i´ll send my dvd/divx from yamada back i think this the best way

i have now only one word for the name yamada you have a very very bad support

i have a problem with my yamada dvd/divx player mx 105 or i´m burning a mpeg4 file on a cd-r then i have not problems but or i burn it on a dvd-r or dvd+r from different media but then it suck then i have different colors in pieces in my movie and it jumps a lot of minutes does somebody know how i can fix it i have the new firmware but it will not help i have used virtualdub and i have convert it with different codecs but it will not help

are there more people with the same problems

I burn with quality DVD-r Verbatim and it allways works perfect. If u try better brands that have AZO on the media u see it works perfect

okay thanks for you answer i´ll shall try this media

no it was not working but i have fix the problem

or you encoding it with virtualdub you must have the program avidemux for rebuilding the frames

you can download it here

greetz rakker

I have recently bought a yamada mx105 to watch backup dvds on -r discs, i have a 6700 which plays them fine but i am finding the mx105 skipps and stutters often during playback, i updated the firmware to v2 which has made it slightly better but still horrendous, any ideas what it could be?

i have the same problem i have try it on a verbatim dvd-r but the result is the same

But many of people problems seem to be with avi's, the trouble i am having is with dvd movies, could this be a time to wait for yamada to get a decent firmware out that makes the play do what it should? I wish i had just bought another 6700 now

here are the pics from the inside for the yamada mx 105

look here

only the site is in german maybe somebody can translate it

Ok i installed firmwares 2 and 3 on my 6700 and i found the skipping problem occured on that, i reinstalled firmware 1 and it sorted the problem, this firmware has the packed bitstream support... could this be the thing the mx105 is lacking? I dont know much about these things but if yamada get off thier asses and produce an equivelent firmware for the mx105 i will be sorted, i think i may just send it back to pixmainia as i am not happy tbh

Bengdogg if i understand you correct, its dvd movie you have probs whit and not avi files burned on a dvd ?


if so it has notheng to do whit packet bitstream since that is only used in avi files, i know from other players like my old philips 722 if i burn a movie over 4x it keeps skipping the picture, so if you burn faster try slowing the burn speed down

yes dvd movie is the problem and firmware 1 works best for me on the 6700, i will try slower burning though, i currently do 8x